Example sentences of "back and [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | farther east , Russian campaigns against the Buryats around the southern end of Lake Baikal went on from the 1630s to the 1680s , causing great turmoil as some Buryat and Mongol tribes withdrew to Mongolia , or were buffeted back and forward between the two aggressive empires . |
| 2 | The use of And yet in the third paragraph , for instance , gives the impression that the writer is thinking aloud , or perhaps just moving back and forth along the same line of argument — as one would do in chatting to a friend — rather than firmly wrapping up one stage in the argument before moving on to the next as is the case in the German text . |
| 3 | With her generosity of spirit , she always forgave my sliding back and forth across the East-West or male-female barriers . |
| 4 | The shadows from the candlelight darted back and forth across the shallow whitewashed dome . |
| 5 | A flashlight searched back and forth across the sleeping bodies of the coolies as the hulking figure of Duclos advanced down the barrack in a dripping black rain cape . |
| 6 | And on one day of hard frost , Paul and Molly had slid back and forth across the shining ice , screaming with delight , watched by a bold robin who sat fearlessly nearby on a low bare branch preening the pale grey feathers that edged the bronze of his breast . |
| 7 | Drawn by light-stepping ponies , lowing bullocks , sweating , yellow-skinned men or smoking petrol and steam engines , unending processions of carriages , carts , rickshaws , trams , trains , cars , and motor buses were plying urgently back and forth across the drab plain of treeless rice fields , hurrying to complete their business before the heat of noon drove their passengers to seek shelter and shade . |
| 8 | Without ceasing to play a wide beam of heat back and forth across the advancing hordes , Ace checked the power supply of her blaster . |
| 9 | She follows me into the room and plants herself square in the middle of one of the sofas , leaving me to pace back and forth across the thick carpet while I deliver my diatribe . |
| 10 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 11 | Every day for the last month we 've been totting the Vortec back and forth to the local office , where it has been used to run an Alpha Four Database . |
| 12 | Hauser paced slowly back and forth at the far end behind his empty chair as he spoke . |
| 13 | To give even a simple account of this sequence demands chapters that travel back and forth between the various territories that Charles conquered and ruled . |
| 14 | Suspicions bubble furiously , contacts drop like ninepins , Redford is bashed on the head a few times , the dreaded box is nicked back and forth between the Good and the Bad like a gunpoint game of Pass The Parcel and Redford 's erstwhile girlfriend Liz ( Mary McDonnell ) ends up offering refuge to the jittery team and their mountains of equipment . |
| 15 | I was trying to communicate between David and Tony , trying to get them to talk to each other , and as a result was going back and forth between the two of them which was a very frustrating experience , added to which I was tired from being on the road and I was very unhappy . |
| 16 | They were busy packing a basket with the things that Sigarup would need , talking quietly , moving back and forth between the two rooms : collecting blankets , cooking pots , a bag of wheat flour , salt and chilli , the cotton tarpaulin that they stretched across upright sticks to make a tent . |
| 17 | In between these two extremes comes the large mass of honourable and intelligent outdoor enthusiasts who listen to the frothings and bayings back and forth between the two factions with alarm , but without the detailed information from both sides which would enable them freely and democratically to make up their own minds , and if necessary bring their concerted pressure to bear on one side or the other to desist . |
| 18 | He had been drifting back and forth between the two ever since . |
| 19 | Actually , it 's a very pleasant way to work — I 've set up one room for word processing and another for screenshot manipulation , so I can switch back and forth between the two whilst I 'm writing captions . |
| 20 | Isabel could only watch helplessly as Lady Eleanor was set to scurrying back and forth between the solar and the Queen 's wardrobe . |
| 21 | We shuttle back and forth between the large department stores that anchor the mall . |
| 22 | And all the time I was talking I rolled my swabs back and forth over the frozen Thames . |
| 23 | He lowered himself on to her breasts and she moaned as he held himself up on his elbows and barely allowed himself to touch her , his hard chest sliding lightly back and forth over the aching tenderness of her bosom . |
| 24 | Donna took a step closer , her gaze travelling back and forth over the gilt-framed painting . |
| 25 | As the plants moved in the breeze , the sunlight dappled and speckled back and forth over the brown soil , the white pebbles and weeds . |
| 26 | Written as a journalistic offering without benefit of references or even a bibliography , it still manages to inform the reader on many of the internal features of Saddam Hussein 's rise to power , though it has an infuriating tendency to dart back and forth over the past 30 years , too much like a 1960s film trying to be clever . |
| 27 | Moreover , those planning a curriculum may find that they proceed not in a linear fashion , but by moving back and forth among the various headings , since these affect one another . |
| 28 | He shrank back fearfully as the horns scythed back and forth among the fragile trees , only a foot or so from his vulnerable body . |
| 29 | The piston itself is a rectangular hardwood board 15½ × 8 × ¾in , which moves back and forth in the first chamber , pushed ( or pulled ) by two ½in rods which extend through one end of the bellows and are joined on the outside by a handle . |
| 30 | In the afternoons there was little to see other than the skateboarders who came to clatter back and forth in the bowl-shaped space under the Festival Hall , making a sound that was somewhere between a roller derby and a kendo match ; but as evening came on , bags and boxes would start to appear in the best-lighted spots under the concrete . |